A bitter, camphoraceous sesquiterpene lactone isolated from elecampane (Inula helenium) root. Smells dry, herbal-woody with an earthy, slightly medicinal facet reminiscent of the crude root itself. Persistent and somewhat harsh in isolation.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 35.
Colorless prismatic needle crystals
Soluble in alcohol, perfume chemicals, essential oils etc.
Peculiar sweet-minty, slightly woody odor
Bitter taste, but not powerful
Although Alantolactone as such is not reported as used regularly in perfumes or flavors, it has medicinal value for many hundred years in the shape of extracts of the Elecampane root.